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Transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell
A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow transplantation. Stem cells are small, round cells with a squat nucleus and scant surrounding cytoplasm. Although unremarkable in appearance…
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- Second wave A phenomenon of infections that can develop during a pandemic. The disease infects one group of people first…
- Ear, foreign object in There are three sections of the ear. They are the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The inner…
- Fever, valley A disease also called coccidioidomycosis (CM) due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of…
- Eileithyia In Greek mythology, a protector of women who, with her mother Hera, was often called upon during childbirth
- Adjacent Lying nearby. Related terms include superjacent, subjacent, and circumjacent. From ad-, near + the Latin…
- Pedodontics Children's dentistry.
- Remote telesurgery Surgical procedures carried out at a great distance thanks to advances in robotic and computer technology and…
- FMRI Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Tendonitis, Achilles See: Achilles tendonitis
- Retic Short for reticulocyte
- Cells, reproductive The eggs and sperm are the reproductive cells. Each mature reproductive cell is haploid in that it has a…